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Re:The problem with Android is choice by w1ntermute on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @02:51PM (#6555464)
There was nothing to "set up", she created a Google account and that was about it. The biggest difficulty she had was learning to type with a QWERTY keyboard, since she had never used a typewriter or computer before. So she instead uses the mazec2 Handwriting Recognition keyboard[0] with a stylus. That's something you definitely could have never done on Apple's locked-down platform.

0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metamoji.m...

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Re:The problem with Android is choice by 2muchcoffeeman on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @07:31PM (#6557041)
Wireless? Rejecting/accepting Google Now? Non-gmail email accounts?

I'm trying to think back to when I set up my dad's phone and my own phone. Certainly wasn't 1. Create Google account 2. Done.

I don't think Apple did it any better though. It all sucks in different ways.

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Re:The problem with Android is choice by w1ntermute on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:44PM (#6557534)
> Wireless?

I probably entered this while she was at my house, but she had no problems setting it up after going home.

> Rejecting/accepting Google Now?

Never came up.

> Non-gmail email accounts?

As someone who had never used a computer before, this obviously wasn't an issue either.

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